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Motives for social research:
Social research can be motivated by policy guidance and program management needs, academic concerns, and charitable impulses.

Policy and management motivations: an example would be that school officials may need information for planning distance learning programs.
Academic motivations: Questions about changing social relations have stimulated much academic social science. ie. Durkheim linked social processes stemming from urbanization and industrialization to a higher rate of suicide.
Personal motivations: Some social scientists who conduct research on the impact of computers and the internet feel that by doing so they can help to improve the quality of social relations, the effectiveness ...